The Really Intractable Thing: North Korea, Climate Change, and Why We’re Failing
Over at The Week, a depressing piece on the horrors up North, titled “North Korea isn’t Nazi Germany — in some ways, it’s worse”: Unless North Korea invades or bombs another country, or China gives up...
View ArticleVerbal Grooming, Social Media Tribalism, and Opiates
So, a follow-up to my earlier post on Social Networks and how we behave on them: Steven Mithen’s The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body is a fascinating book, even if...
View ArticleThe Perfect Pitch Karaoke Paradox… and its Probable Resolution
I’m still working my way through the book I mentioned in my last post, Steven Mithen’s The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body, and I seem to have come upon a paradox....
View ArticleMedicine in the Early 18th Century
From Jennifer Lee Carrell’s The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox, a brief account of how, in the early Georgian era, … medicine was unabashedly aggressive; in an attempt to be...
View ArticleJohnny Appleseed, Apple Genetics, and Burnt Orchards
One of the podcasts I listen to quite a bit is Stuff You Missed in History Class. They recently ran a “classic” episode demystifying the life of Johnny Appleseed, as John Chapman has become known....
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